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On the Map: Provincetown Paradise with a Side Trip to Wellfleet
On the Map is a feature at LGBTSr.com offering travelogues and recommendations. Narration provided by Wondervox.
By Mark McNease
As we come to the end of another annual trip to Provincetown, I’m reminded why we value our visits here. Frank has had a timeshare for 35 years or so, at a place called Eastwood at Provincetown. It’s like a sprawling motel complex on the far east side of town, and has been very lesbian-centric for years. Plenty of gay men, too, but a lot of women come here. This time I noticed several children with their opposite-sex parents, and I found myself hoping it’s not losing its edge. We’ll see.
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On the Map: Provincetown Paradise with a Side Trip to Wellfleet
On the Map is a feature at LGBTSr.com offering travelogues and recommendations. Narration provided by Wondervox.
By Mark McNease
As we come to the end of another annual trip to Provincetown, I’m reminded why we value our visits here. Frank has had a timeshare for 35 years or so, at a place called Eastwood at Provincetown. It’s like a sprawling motel complex on the far east side of town, and has been very lesbian-centric for years. Plenty of gay men, too, but a lot of women come here. This time I noticed several children with their opposite-sex parents, and I found myself hoping it’s not losing its edge. We’ll see.
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The Weekly Readlines September 1
The Weekly Readlines is a feature at LGBTSr.com offering news you can use every Friday.
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES
First things first: Happy belated birthday to Peanut, the world’s oldest living chicken! What’s her secret?
Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida, causing a 100-year-old oak tree to fall on the governor’s mansion in retaliation for his anti-woke policies.
Canada issued a warning to LGBTQ travelers to avoid the United States. Mitch McConnell froze again during a press conference, with the ever-classy Marjorie Taylor Greene calling him unfit for office.
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The Twist Podcast #238: P-town Paradise, Summer’s Finale, and an interview with Mark S. King
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we chat with Mark from Provincetown, enjoy the waning days of summer, and catch up with Mark S. King, founder of My Fabulous Disease, in Rick’s exclusive interview.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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On Dreamshaping: The Slippage of Time
Are human beings the only animals aware of time passing? Do cats know they’re getting old? Do fish ever wish they’d swum in this direction instead of that one? Is a tree concerned at all with the number of years it has stood rooted in one spot?
When we were children, most of us had occasion to hear those words, “When you’re older …” We were told that someday we would be able to drive a car, or go on a date, or leave home. Patience was required, tested by anticipation and desire. We waited because we had to, and each time we reached that milestone, that magical “older,” and we got our driver’s license, or we went on a first date, we looked ahead to the next thing we could experience when the time came.
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The Weekly Readlines August 25
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) is a feature at LGBTSr providing news you can use every Friday.
In Memoriam: Laura Ann Carleton, murdered for being a friend of the LGBTQ community. Her killer was a Christian extremist, no surprise there.
Republicans had their first debate in Milwaukee, without Trump. Be very afraid.
Students say bans on LGBTQ topics and discussions are pointless: they were never taught in class anyway.
And the ‘war on woke’ is flopping as a fire starter for the GOP. Most Republicans are over it, if they ever cared in the first place, which is unlikely.
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The Twist Podcast #237: Married 10 Years, COVID Double Whammy, and An Interview with Keto Baker Rebecca Hall
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we congratulate Mark and Frank on 10 years of marriage, hear how awful a second bout of Covid can be, and enjoy an interview with Keto Baker Rebecca Hall.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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3 Chapter Audio Sample of ‘Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella’
You can now listen to a 3 chapter audiobook sample of Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella (exclusively on Kindle Vella). Fasten your headphones!
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New Video Promo for Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella
Chapter 3 goes up this weekend. I’ll be offering an audio sample of the first three chapters as well. Be sure to ‘like’ the chapters after you’ve read them! Harry’s a badass. Here’s the Amazon link:
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The Twist Podcast #236: Arkansas Takes the Low Road, Silver Singles in Their Golden Years, and an Interview with Dr. Desi Williams
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we call out Arkansas’ Advanced Placement pileon, consider the trend of silver singles in their golden years, and enjoy Rick’s interview with Dr. Desi Williiams.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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The Weekly Readlines August 11
Quote for the Week: “I come from regular stock, and I prefer that — I prefer being around that.” – Clarence Thomas, in a documentary financed by one of his billionaire benefactors
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Maui has been devastated by wildfires, claiming at least 55 lives and destroying the historic town of Lahaina, once the seat of the Hawaiian kingdom.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested January 2 as the start date for Trump’s trial, possibly hoping to make him a convicted felon in time for Super Tuesday.
And The Band’s Robbie Robertson died at 80, having given us the most most famous and unfortunately enduring Confederate apologia ever recorded, The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down. If only it had stayed there.
LGBTQ NEWS
Milan To Resume Registering Children From Male Couples
ReutersDr. Fauci To Be Succeeded By First Openly LGBTQ Director Of NIAID
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‘Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella’ Now a Kindle Vella Exclusive!
Harry Hell has lived in my head for several years now, and he’s finally found a way out! Intended as a three-book series, the Harry Hell Novellas have begun as a Kindle Vella serial, with a new chapter coming out every Sunday. The first three chapters of every Vella story are free to read, then subsequent chapters are accessed with token you can purchase for the stories. CLICK ON OVER and read the first, intense beginning of Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella.
About Dead Eyes:
The year is sometime in the distant future. Planet Earth remains inhabitable, but only by those on the extremes: the wealthy, in their fenced-in fortresses, and everyone else killing or being killed to survive another day. Harry Hell strides atop the have-nots, having once been an elite assassin for Control, the ultimate authority that maintains what’s left of order. He chose the harder life after his partner and lover Raul was murdered by the villainess Nectar. Since then he has lived for one reason only: to take revenge. He is determined to watch her eyes go cold as she exhales one last time and dies by his hand.
Meet Harry Hell, Crater, Echo, Nectar, the Witch Woman, and many others as they prowl the Ruins, travel in and out of the Slopes, and watch from afar as the distant, gleaming Eastward reminds them of everything they’ve lost. As much a love story as a tale of revenge, Dead Eyes begins a journey of one man, with one mission, who is prepared to destroy it all to get what he wants.
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New Website Header
New era, new drive. This is the image I’ve used for all the new Kyle Callahan Mysteries covers. Truth in advertising: I write mysteries, thrillers, horror … and so much more.